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Halo 2 November 9th

Microsoft's promising Xbox sequel gets a street date and a special pre-order package.

At a pre-E3 press conference in Los Angeles this evening, Microsoft Announced that Halo 2 for the Xbox will be released on November 9th of this year. The company also announced that a limited edition Halo 2 release would be made available for pre-order customers. Leading retailers will offer the pre-order deal, which will offer a DVD packed with a number of multimedia goodies:

The Making of Halo 2: Behind the Scenes of Bungie Studios

"Featurettes" on game design, animation, music, and more

Cinematics and characters that were cut from the game

Art Gallery: From Concept to Game

Commentaries from the development team

Other undisclosed extras

Microsoft hasn't released a lot more information about Halo 2 this evening, save the release date, which is exciting enough for most gamers. Microsoft promises that Halo 2 will expand on the gameplay that made the original game great and add additional technological and gameplay advances that fans will appreciate. The game promises to offer significantly improved graphics, enhanced AI, an advanced real-time lighting engine, destructible interactive environments, a better storyline - and most important of all - online play via Xbox Live.